By: Excel - 11th January 2004 at 12:22
If I remember rightly a Northwest A320’s gear collapsed in Vegas too :confused: :confused:
By: keltic - 10th January 2004 at 23:49
Boa foto, Portugal. Comprimentos
ANother one taken in my local airport. The pic is not as nice.
By: skycruiser - 10th January 2004 at 07:11
Airbuses are not built as well as Boeings. That’s for sure.
By: wannabe pilot - 9th January 2004 at 23:27
I was just speaking to my dad who is a tug driver, and he said that it could be a loss of hydraulic pressure in the main strut that is used when taking up or putting down the undercarriage.
By: EAL_KING - 9th January 2004 at 22:47
lol
By: T5 - 9th January 2004 at 22:26
lol.. I must admit, I didn’t notice that! 😀
By: LBARULES - 9th January 2004 at 22:24
Especially as their is an Air France 737 parked right next to it!
By: T5 - 9th January 2004 at 22:23
Originally posted by Portugal
Air Luxor A-320 will be repaird in the Airbus factory in Toulouse.
This wasen’t the first case of problems with the front gear of an A-320, see the photos:
It makes me laugh the way that Air France have actually bothered to cover up their titles. What’s the point? Obviously it’s embarrassing to have one of your aircraft collapse like that, but I think that even those not interested at all in aviation could identify that as Air France!
:rolleyes:
By: LBARULES - 9th January 2004 at 22:16
All the same incident… They must be some design flaw for that to happen so many times in exactly the same way.
About Bmuseds point, I notice on the thread with the Teeside photos, there is a AEA B738 and a JKK 320 and you can clearly see the difference… Maybe Bmused is right?
By: Britannia - 9th January 2004 at 21:59
and another
By: Portugal - 9th January 2004 at 21:16
At the ramp…
By: Portugal - 9th January 2004 at 21:15
Air Luxor A-320 will be repaird in the Airbus factory in Toulouse.
This wasen’t the first case of problems with the front gear of an A-320, see the photos:
By: Bmused55 - 9th January 2004 at 10:19
here’s the culprit in my opinion. Even when fully extended the nose gear is still angled forwards
I’ve drawn a line to show the angle clearly.
I’m not saying this IS the problem. But if you look at it, in effect the very thin angled strut is taking the weight of the nose
By: brenmcc1 - 9th January 2004 at 10:10
Must be a cause for investigation
By: Bmused55 - 9th January 2004 at 08:51
Originally posted by Britannia
Do ya think anybody was on it when it happend?
erm… yeah. It had just been pushed back for departure, full of pax.
Is it me, or does the A320 series have quite a disturbing amount of gear colapses? Considering the Aircrafts age… there have been a number of identical colapses. Even when just standing at the gate.
I’m not bashing here, merely making an observation
By: Britannia - 9th January 2004 at 08:00
Do ya think anybody was on it when it happend?
By: ACA345 - 9th January 2004 at 01:23
Has the cause been determined yet? Or is this not a rare occurance…
By: Portugal - 8th January 2004 at 21:43
Originally posted by Jeanske_SN
That was at Madeira I believe?
Yes, it was in Funchal, Madeira.
By: Jeanske_SN - 8th January 2004 at 20:06
That was at Madeira I believe?
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